I am working on this tonight with jetty as front end and cassandra as
backend session store. Hopefully.
On 1 Feb 2011 18:19, "Kallin Nagelberg" <kallin.nagelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
> I am currently investigating Cassandra for storing what are
> effectively web sessions. Our production environment has about 10 high
> end servers behind a load balancer, and we'd like to add distributed
> session support. My main concerns are performance, consistency, and
> the ability to create unique session keys. The last thing we would
> want is users picking up each others sessions. After spending a few
> days investigating Cassandra I'm thinking of creating a single
> keyspace with a single super-column-family. The scf would store a few
> standard columns, and a supercolumn of arbitrary session attributes,
> like:
>
> 0s809sdf8s908sf90s: {
> prop1: x,
> created : timestamp,
> lastAccessed: timestamp,
> prop2: y,
> arbirtraryProperties : {
> someRandomProperty1:xxyyzz,
> someRandomProperty2:xxyyzz,
> someRandomProperty3:xxyyzz
> }
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable use case? We are on a tight timeline
> and I'm currently on the fence about getting something up and running
> like this on a tight timeline.
>
> Thanks,
> -Kal
